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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Center Organization & Management Jill Szczesek, Managing Director Management Mission A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Value the efforts of Center

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Jill Szczesek, Managing Director

Center Organization & Management

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Management Mission

  • Value the efforts of Center investigators and support

them in their research and initiatives

  • Manage existing resources for all BioXFEL activities,

and seek out new sources of support

  • Contribute to the BioXFEL collective decision-making

process

  • Support the educational, knowledge transfer,

evaluation and other non-research aspects of BioXFEL, and bring creative energy to their development and advancement

  • Understand and appreciate the impact of the

research being accomplished

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

BioXFEL STC Chronology

October 2013

  • The BioXFEL STC was selected out of a group of

268 applicants (As well as MIT and Harvard) November 2013

  • A press conference was held announcing the

Center December 2013

  • Recruitment and hiring begins for multiple

positions

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

BioXFEL STC Chronology

February 2014

  • BioXFEL STC Strategic Planning at ASU

March 2014

  • External Advisors Meet in Buffalo at HWI

May 2013

  • First Review of new Collaborator Proposals

June 2014

  • First Annual Site Visit
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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Upcoming Activities

August 2014

  • Data Analysis Workshop at LBNL

January 2015

  • Second International Conference of the

BioXFEL STC March 2015

  • Second Annual Meeting of the BioXFEL

External Advisors Committee

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Organizational Structure

NSF Leadership Team Managing Director Co-PI’s & Participants New Collaborators Associate Director at UB ASU Scripps Institute HUBzero Team Associate Director at ASU Stanford Admin. Assistant Education Consultant Coordinator Coordinators (2) UWM Rice University DESY Scientist BioXFEL External Advisors Scientific Director Cornell Museum Partners Assessment Consultant UB/HWI UCSF LBNL LLNL CFEL UB Vice President for Research Director BioXFEL Internal Steering Committee Industrial Affiliates

University of Pittsburgh

Education and Diversity Director Staff Scientist Director of Knowledge Transfer ASU Program Manager Principal Investigator

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Steering Committee

Name Role Institution

Eaton Lattman Center Director University at Buffalo John Spence CoPI, Scientific Director Arizona State University Petra Fromme CoPI Arizona State University Abbas Ourmazd CoPI University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Edward Snell Collaborator University at Buffalo George Phillips Collaborator Rice University Robert Stroud Collaborator University of California- San Francisco Margarita Dubocovich Education Director University at Buffalo Kenneth Tramposch Knowledge Transfer University at Buffalo Thomas Furlani Computation Director University at Buffalo Jill Szczesek Managing Director Hauptman Woodward Institute

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Committee of External Advisors

Member Affiliation Expertise

Nora Berrah University of Connecticut Laser spectroscopy; BESAC member Dirksen Bussiere Novartis Industrial Martin Caffrey Trinity College Dublin Membrane protein crystallography Wah Chiu Baylor EM single particle Henry Frierson University of Florida STEM education and diversity Teresa Head-Gordon UC Berkeley X-ray and dynamics Victor Lamzin EMBL Hamburg Algorithms Stefano Marchesini Lawrence Berkeley National Lab X-ray holography Keith Moffat, Chair University of Chicago X-ray kinetics, large facilities James Naismith University of St. Andrews European XFEL; crystallography

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Council of VPRs

  • Met most recently in May 2014
  • Aiding in the efforts to secure additional funds

for the Center

  • Have committed institutional resources

– Staff – Technology

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Strategic BioXFEL Committees

  • Administrative Contacts of Each Campus
  • University at Buffalo Management Group
  • BioXFEL International Conference 2015

– Ed Lattman & Abbas Ourmazd, Co-chairs – John Spence – Henry Chapman – Richard Neutze

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Management Oversight

  • Mechanisms to Track Progress

– Data tracking software being developed with UC Davis

  • Personnel
  • Institutions
  • Activities- ie. beamtime applications
  • Publications and media

– Annual Review of Center Collaborators – Web tracking with Goggle Analytics and HUBZero

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Media Coverage

  • Since November 2013

– 78 pieces of media

  • Television
  • Print material
  • Web publications
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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Nature- January 2014

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Annual Collaborator Review

  • Both new and initial collaborators will be

reviewed

– The BioXFEL Steering Committee will gauge progress toward intended Center projects – Beamtime submissions and secured time – Collaborative initiatives – Publications attributed to the Center

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Web Tracking and Social Media

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Collaboration with LBNL

BioXFEL and LBNL August 2014 Data Analysis Instructors

Paul Adams (LBNL) Anton Barty (DESY) Wolfgang Brehm (Uni Konstanz) Aaron Brewster (LBNL) Johan Hattne (HHMI) James Holton (LBNL) Karol Nass (Max Planck Institute) Christopher O'Grady (SLAC) Nick Sauter (LBNL) Thomas White (CFEL) Nadia Zatsepin (ASU) Oliver Zeldin (Stanford)

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Web Registrations

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Communication Systems

  • GoToMeeting is utilized for monthly Steering

Committee meetings as well as meetings of the graduate students and postdocs

  • Social media accounts are being utilized to

communicate with the Center members and those with XFEL interests

  • Three videos have been created with varying

intended target audiences

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Recruitment

  • Support is provided centrally for new Center
  • pportunities

– JOIN US segment on the wesbite – Positions have been advertised nationally and internationally – Recent hires

  • DESY Staff Scientist, Marc Messerschmidt
  • UB Staff Scientist, Tom Grant
  • Education Coordinator, Anthony Hutchinson
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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

New Collaborations

  • Four new scientific collaborators have joined

BioXFEL

– Formal application process with abstract – Submissions reviewed and selected by the Steering Committee

  • Guillermo Callero, University of Pittsburgh
  • Vadim Cherezov, Scripps Institute
  • Joseph Luft, Hauptman Woodward Institute
  • Alexandra Ros, Arizona State University
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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

New Partnerships

  • Adult’s Night Out at ASC

– May 2014, Dr. Brenda Hogue

  • Buffalo Science Museum Science Café

– August 2014, Dr. Eaton Lattman

  • Installations in the creative process for both

locations

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Year 1 Resources

Arizona State University $1,124,804 Cornell University $229,550 Hauptman Woodward Institute $1,378,157 Miami University of Ohio $45,241 Stanford University $229,550 Univeristy of California- Davis $55,019 University at Buffalo $964,426 University of California- San Francisco $229,550 University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee $505,006 William Marsh Rice University $229,550 Total Award $4,990,853

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Year 1 Unobligated Funds

Cornell University Estimated- $91,802 Hauptman Woodward Medical Institute Estimated- $314,173 University at Buffalo Estimated- $209,624 University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee Estimated- $252,562

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center BioXFEL International Conference

Ponce, Puerto Rico January 14-16, 2015 Primary areas of discovery will include femtosecond nanocrystallography; time- resolved imaging & spectroscopy; single particles; and instrumentation & algorithms.

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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Management Targets for Year 2

  • External sources for additional resources
  • Expanded museum partnerships
  • Industry partner support for the annual

conference

  • Development of stronger internal and

external communications